Middle East oil consumption is up.
Yeah, but the premise of the article is that the countries are using up an increasingly amount of oil domestically so they cannot export as much. It is inferred that the oil usage is for an increasing amount of domestic fuel usage.
If instead these countries have been able to diversity enough to refine oil into products domestically, then it explains how some of the oil otherwise exported is not simply "used up domestically" but is made into a product that the country would not otherwise have to purchase, or the refined products are exported instead of oil.
I recall that Saudi Arabia, for example, made styrofoam.
Seems exporting a product is more lucrative than exporting crude.